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the harp is broken the music stops; if the human dies, doesnt the soul also vanish? (Plato). It is to answer these concerns and ar...

major argument in favor of poetry; that it was an educational tool that could be used in the instruction of moral values. Sidne...

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

be quantified. That is, ones life may be the truth, but it cannot be articulated as the truth. Still, there had been much debate b...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

leg only" (Plato). If this were true, if there were only one process in regards to life-death, then everything would ultimately co...

the more metaphysical idea that the world of the present is known as the physical world that one is able to perceive using the sen...

sported the slogan "Challenge Authority." To many, it had little meaning. That is because the majority of people are sheep. They d...

Yet is it just to have such a rule in place? Furthermore is a just for a professional football team to be fined, simply because th...

is only preserved as a term of reproach" (Plato). He illustrates how the figures of men and women and the third figure were round ...

his writings (Levinson x). Socrates would continue to dominate Platos personal and professional lives for years to come, and woul...

the circumstance. In other words, if something can go wrong with it, that sense is considered inconsequential to the final outcome...

Socrates frequently alluded was the basis for his debates with Gorgias, contending that the degree of abstraction pursued by thoug...

possibly think?" (I.3). As this indicates, Aristotles perspective is grounded in observation and reality. He sees the mind as intr...

very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...

life fulfillment and that a disabled individual should be allowed to die because their quality of life will not allow them to find...

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

background, the points which Gray (2001) makes are surprising to say the least. Gray (2001) sees the war we as a society are wagi...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

had to be obtained by directing the students mind toward the discovery of what is real and important, then allowing them to deduce...

of innate knowledge, he was adamant that nothing could be learned except through experience and sensory input: "How comes [the mi...

the best" (the literal definition of aristocracy) was to be achieved. This scenario, by its very nature, assured the manifestatio...

this pint he is, in essence, pleading for his life and states, "I dare say that you may feel irritated at being suddenly awakened ...

and ones existence. To reach true happiness, Plato contended that people must strive for a contentment that only comes from being...

that the story being told is one that has been re-told so often that it is little more than hearsay, and it is from this "story of...

the needs of the people as paramount. To derive this point, and other theories related to government, Hobbes paid a great deal of ...

words, "how does one KNOW that this is the truth". Most of Socrates teaching took place on the steps of a Lyceum, much like an a...

believe. Deweys central thesis is rather controversial, but is seemingly valid, and has withstood the test of time. Indeed, Deweys...

charges of impiety and corruption of youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens ("Socrates," 2003). While this ph...

societys goods (Platos Political Theory, 2002). They were satisfied with their lives and held back from being passionate natured ...